CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST Each week, we provide a cartoon in need of a caption. You, the reader, submit a caption, we choose three finalists, and you vote jòr your favorite. Caption submissions jòr this week's cartoon, by Tom Cheney, must be received by Sunday, December 17th. Finalists in the December 4th contest appear below; go online to vote. We will announce the winner, along with the finalists in this week's contest, in the January 8th issue. The winner will be given a signed print of the cartoon. Any U. S. resident age eighteen or over can enter or vote. To do so, and to read the complete rules, visit www.newyorker.comlcaptioncontest. THE WINNING CAPTION . .. .'> .1. . ..: ß//A.>1 THE FINALISTS "Son, we finally attracted the fifty-Joot- and-over demographic. " Joel Herm, Oregon, Wis. "Hmm. What rhymes with layoffs?" Carl Gable, Norcross, Ga. 'You know, I couldn't have done it without your mother. " Scott Fitzpatrick, Westfield, N.J. "Son, one day all this will be yours. Except her. " Michael Embley, Tiburon, Calif: THIS WEEK'S CONTEST {H .\ I. J ø l I . I , J I. 'J l j I. ' I . [ )J_ --. cW \ " "